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Title

Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation / edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Sklar, Kathryn Kish
• Stewart, James Brewer
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Description

xxiv, 385 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

Based on lectures from a conference in October 2002 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University--Introduction.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Women abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses
• African American women abolitionists > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Women abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Women abolitionists > Europe > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Antislavery movements > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Women's rights > History > 19th century > Congresses
• United States > Relations > Europe > Congresses
• Europe > Relations > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Based on lectures from a conference in Oct. 2002 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. I. Context - then and today -- 1. Declaring equality : sisterhood and slavery / David Brion Davis -- 2. Sisterhood, slavery, and sovereignty : transnational antislavery work and women’s rights movements in the United States during the twentieth century / Judith Resnik -- Pt. II. The impact of antislavery on French, German, and British feminism -- 3. How (and why) the analogy of marriage with slavery provided the springboard for women’s rights demands in France, 1640-1848 / Karen Offen -- 4. Frauenemancipation and beyond : the use of the concept of emancipation by early European feminists / Bonnie S. Anderson -- 5. Women’s mobilization in the era of slave emancipation : some Anglo-French comparisons / Seymour Drescher -- 6. British abolition and feminism in transatlantic perspective / Clare Midgley -- Pt. III. The transatlantic activism of African-American women abolitionists -- 7. Sarah Forten’s anti-slavery networks / Julie Winch -- 8. Incidents abroad : Harriet Jacobs and the transatlantic movement / Jean Fagan Yellin -- 9. "Like hot lead to pour on the Americans ..." : Sarah Parker remond - from Salem, Mass., to the British Isles / Willi Coleman -- 10. Literary transnationalism and diasporic history : Frances Watkins Harper’s "fancy sketches," 1859-60 / Carla L. Peterson -- Pt. IV. Transatlantic influences on the emergence of women’s rights in the United States -- 11. "The throne of my heart" : religion, oratory, and transatlantic community in Angelina Grimke’s launching of women’s rights, 1828-1838 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- 12. The redemption of a heretic : Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American abolitionism / Deborah A. Logan -- 13. "Seeking a larger liberty" : remapping first wave feminism / Nancy A. Hewitt --
• 14. Ernestine Rose's Jewish origins and the varities of Euro-American emancipation in 1848 / Ellen Carol DuBois -- Pt. V. Transcultural activism against slavery by African-American women -- 15. Writing for true womanhood : African-American women’s writings and the antislavery struggle / Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- 16. Enacting emancipation : African American women abolitionists at Oberlin College and the quest for empowerment, equality, and respectability / Carol Lasser -- 17. At the boundaries of abolitionism, feminism, and black nationalism : the activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary / Jane Rhodes.

ISBN

• 0300115938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780300115932 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006029065

OCLC

• 71312754
• SCSB-11240411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library